Kathryn Lasky Quotes

“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”

“I am terrified of being bored.”

“It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.”

“What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?”

“Don't be afraid to be afraid. Have fear, and then conquer the shit out of it.”

“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?”

“The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.”

“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”

“I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.”

“Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.”